The New Packet Ship Orient, of New York.

There is a massive boldness in the outline of this splendid ship, which
impresses the eye favorably at first sight, and this impression becomes
confirmed when she is inspected with the closest scrutiny. Built of oak, in
the most substantial style, strongly fastened with copper, iron and treenails,
and finished in the first style of workmanship, she is at once an object of
wonder and admiration.

She is 1560 tons register, and has the stowage capacity of full 5800 bales
of New Orleans cotton; yet her ends are easy, which, taken in connection with
her great length and buoyancy of floor, give promise of almost clipper speed.
On the keel she is 191 feet 3 inches long; on the upper deck (for she has 3
decks,) from the fore part of them stem to the after part of the sternpost,
she is 201 feet 1 inch long; and over all, from the knightheads to the
taffrail, about 215 feet; her extreme breadth, which is at the height of 13
feet from the top of the keel, is 41 feet 8 inches; her width at the
planksheer is 38 feet 3½ inches; and her whole depth, from the ceiling
on the floor to the top of the upper deck, is 29 feet 6 inches. Her dead rise
at half floor is 11 inches, and sheer 3½ feet. She is planked up flush
to the planksheer, has rounded or convex lines, and a carved and gilded billet
head, with ornamental carving upon the trail boards and navel hoods. The
moulding of the planksheer is carried forward to the billet, and forms the
lower outline of her head boards. Her stern is light and well proportioned;
swells gently outwards between the quarter timbers, and between the arch-board
and the rail. Instead of windows, it has circular plate glass ports, is
spanned by an arch of gilded carved work, in the apex of which is a small
female bust, and below which are branches of ornamental gilt-work, tastefully
arranged. Her name and port of hail are painted white upon the arch-board. Her
bottom is green, for she is not yet coppered; along the waist she has a tier
of painted ports in a white streak, and the rest of her hull outside is
painted black; inside she is painted buff color relieved with white.

Her bulwarks are 5 feet high, surmounted by a monkey rail of 16 inches, and
the spaces between the main and rack rails are clamped inside and out, and
these clamps are bolted vertically and horizontally.

She has a topgallant forecastle 40 feet long, with two of Perley's patent
capstans on it, and below this deck there are spacious accommodations for the
crew, and in the after wings of it, are several necessary apartments. Her
windlass is very stout and strongly secured, and she will have
Crane's self-acting chain stoppers.

Abaft the foremast amidships is a house 45 feet long by 16 wide and 7 high,
which contains a sick-bay, two galleys, 4 state-rooms, passages to the main
deck, and a trunk ventilator, which communicates with the deck below. Of these
ventilators she has several fore and aft, which also answer the purposes of
skylights, for they are covered with glass, and have upper sections which are
always open. Beside these, she has our friend Emerson's patent ventilators
forward and aft, and brass ventilators along the line of her plansheer and in
her bitts.

Abaft the mainmast is a square house, which protects the entrance to the
deck below, and has also a skylight ventilator in it.

She has a half poop deck, with a trunk built into it, and a sheel-house on
its after part, with a passage way between it and the trunk. The after cabin
contains 3 state-rooms, &c, and a staircase leading aft to the wheel-house. It
is wainscotted with mahogany, set off into Gothic-arched panels, relieved with
enamelled white pilasters, richly fringed with flowered gilding. The forward
cabin contains three state romms and the pantry, and is tastefully grained,
and has a small anteroom which communicates with the quarter deck; and the
windows are all of stained glass.

Her deck room is spacious and well arranged for working ship. On the
quarter deck she has a patent capstan, and two winches on each side, one
forward, the other aft.

Her second cabin is on the main deck aft, and containes 22 large
staterooms, with four berths in each. These romms are all put up with screws,
so that when the spacious is required for the stowage of cargo they can be
taken down with ease. This cabin is well lighted and ventilated, and contains
all the apartments and conveniences peculiar to packet ships.

The main deck contains her chain locker forward, has three large cargo
ports in each side, and is painted white. The lower deck has a ballast port on
each side, and the height of each deck is between 7 and 8 feet, and both are
admirably designed for the accommodation of passengers. Every entrance to the
deck below from the upper deck, is protected from rain and sea.

The above will convet some idea of her general outline. We will now give a
few details of her materials, and the style of her construction.

Her keel is of rock maple, sided 16 inches, and is moulded 2 feet forward
and 20 inches aft, with 3 inches depth of shoe. The stem is of white oak, 16
inches at the bottom, including the gripe left on, 2 feet 6 inches, and at the
top 15 inches, and is sided the same as the keel. The sternpost is also oak,
from 22½ inches to 16; and the stern is framed out solid, with cant
timbers, without transoms, the whole bolted together in the most substantial
style. Her frame is entirely of New Hampshire white oak. The floor timbers on
the keel are moulded 17 inches, and sided about 13½, and the ends of
the navel timbers, where they butt on the keel, were each bolted into it,
before the keelson was laid.

The lower main keelson is of oak, 16 inches square, and every floor timber
is bolted through it and the keel was 1¼ inch copper. The second and
third keelsons are each 16 by 14 inches, of hard pine, with a rider of 16 by 4
inches, of white oak, all closely bolted. Her depth of back bone is 7½
feet. She has two tiers of sister keelsons, the first 16 inches square, and
the second 12 by 13, bolted vertically and horizontally, and in the wake of
the main hatchway and opposite the mainmats, there are abuttors or backers of
the same dimensions as the sister keelsons, to which they are bolted, and
through every timber, with 1¼ inch fastening. The ceiling on the floor
is of white oak, 4 inches thick, square fastened with spikes. From 6 feet
outside of the sister keelsons over the whole turn of the bilge, the ceiling
is 12 inches thick, and none of the ceiling in the hold is less than 7 inches
thickness, and all the heavy work is scarphed upon the flat, the clamps upon
the edges, and all are square bolted; in a word, she is square bolted
throughout; and, in addition, every plank was bolted edgeways at every 5 feet,
as the work was put together. The lower ends of the hanging knees in the hold
rest upon a stringer of 12 by 14 inches, which is 4 feet 10 inches below the
deck, and connects with the hooks forward and aft. There are 4 hooks and
pointers in each end, 3 of which fay to the knees under the beams. Her ends
are almost filled with massive oakwork.

The lower deck beams are 19½ by 15½ amidships, those under
the main deck 17½ by 14½, and those under the upper deck 14 by
8, all, of course, tapered at the ends, and all of hard pine. The knees and
stanchions in the hold are all of oak; the hanging knees are 44 in number,
mostly moulded 22 inches in the angles, and sided 12 inches, with 18 bolts and
4 spikes in each. The lodging knees are sided 9 inches, and are scarphed
together in every berth. The stanchions are kneed in the wake of the
hatchways, and are also clasped with iron.

Her lower deck waterways are of hard pine, 17 inches square, with thick
work inside and over them, and the ceiling above is 6 inches thick. The main
deck hanging knees are 54 in number, and are of hacmatack, but the lodging
knees are of oak. Her main deck waterways are 16 inches square, also supported
and strengthened by thick work over and inside of them, and the ceiling above
is 6 inches thick. Except in the thick work, the bolt heads are plugged over,
presenting a smooth surface. The knees in this deck are all of hacmatack, and
the stanchions between both decks are truned and secured with iron rods
through their centres. Between each of the decks, too, there are massive
hooks, which completely span the angles of the ends, and there are also hooks
below and above the bowsprit.

The upper deck waterways are of white pine, 11½ inches deep by
11½ wide, with thick strakes inside of them. Her lower deck is of hard
pine, 3 inches thick, and the two others are of white [sic], ½
inch thicker.

All her outside planking (except 6 feet 8 inches of topsides, which are of
hard pine,) is of selected white oak. The garboards are 7 inches thick, the
second strake 6, and the third 5, graduated to 4 without projection, and the
wales are 5½ inches thick, and she is butt and bilge bolted with
copper, and square fastened with locust treenails. Her planksheer and main
rail are each 6½ inches thick.

She is a full-rigged ship, and has made fore and main masts; the mizzen
mast is of a single spar. The following are the dimensions of her masts and
yards:

MASTS.

Dimensions, Inches.

Length, Feet.

Mast-heads, Feet.

Fore

36

86

14½

Top

18

48

8½

Topgallant

12

27

0

Royal

10

17½

pole..10

Main

36

89

15

Top

18

49½

8½

Topgallant

13

27½

0

Royal

11

18

pole..12

Mizzen

27

80

11½

Top

14

40

7

Topgallant

9½

21½

0

Royal

7

13½

pole..9

YARDS.

Fore

21

77

yard-arms..4

Top

17

63

5

Topgallant

10½

45

2½

Royal

8

36

1½

Main

22

83

4

Top

1_½

65½

5

Topgallant

11½

48

3

Royal

8½

31½

2

Crossjack

16½

62

3½

Mizzentopsail

13

49

4½

Topgallant

8½

35

2½

Royal

6

27

1½

The bowsprit is 36 inches in diameter and 30 feet outboard; jibboom 18
inches in diameter, and divided at 16½ and 15½ feet for the two
jibs, with 5 feet end, and is 18 feet inboard; spanker boom 50 feet long, gaff
36 feet, main spencer gaff 20 feet, and the other spars in proportion. her
fore stays set up to the knight heads, the main and maintopmast stays to the
bitts before the foremast; and all her standing rigging is of four stranded
patent rope, wormed, and fitted in excellent style. Her masts are white, the
yards black and booms bright. She has the chain and iron work about the
bowsprit and aloft, now in general use, such as bobstays, bowsprit shrouds,
patent trusses, futtock rigging, chain topsail ties and sheets, &c.

She is seasoned with salt, and, as already stated, is well ventilated.
These details will convey but a very imperfect idea of her strength; she must
be seen to be properly appreciated. All who have inspected her say that she is
the most thorough built merchant ship which has ever been produced in New
Hampshire -- and this is saying much, when we call to mind that New Hampshire
built vessels rank among the first of all American vessels at Lloyd's.

She has very heavy ground tackle, six boats, four pumps, and in every other
detail is most amply equipped. Mr. George Raynes, well known as the builder of
the splendid packet ship Constantine, the clippers
Witch of the
Wave,
Sea Serpent, and
Wild Pigeon, built her, and owns a
part of her, and she is designed for Messrs. Spofford, Tileston & Co's line of
New York and Liverpool packets, and these gentlemen are her principal owners.
Messrs. T.B. Maxwell and Jeremiah Wintringham, her commander, Capt. Fancis M.
French, a veteran in the packet service, also are interested in her. We advise
the New York mechanics to inspect her; they will find her every inch, a far
superior vessel to the imperfect sketch we have given of her. Bear in mind
that she was built by the day, in contradiction to contract jobs, and that no
expense was spared to make her a perfect ship.